Praise Quotes

1794 Praise quotes by 1092 unique authors

Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next… — Laozi
Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was… — John Dryden
I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is… — Mike Tyson
Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding by? Our sins, not thine,… — Peter Abelard
Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress."… — Khalil Gibran
She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. — William Wordsworth
Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and… — Edward Abbey
The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you; the public will… — Edward Abbey
I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of… — Edmund Burke
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely… — Benjamin Franklin
The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has been stripped of… — Alexander Hamilton
You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process. — Lucinda Williams
The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did. — Chinua Achebe
Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself,… — Thucydides
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise. — Horace
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. — Julius Caesar
If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society,… — Ralph Ellison
I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well. — James Dickey
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will… — John Berryman
Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty)… — Virginia Woolf
O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism… — Virginia Woolf
Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a… — Leonardo da Vinci
All praise is to Allah, I'll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here I'd fight him too. — Mike Tyson
Begin with praise and honest appreciation. — Dale Carnegie
Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too… — Dale Carnegie

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